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FRIDAY APRIL
CRICKET.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS.
1928
ELECTRIC WORKERS'
STRIKE.
SITUATION THE SAME.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The position regarding the Electric Company's North Point workmen is yesterday. Apparently, the comt
the same
ALL ABOARD.”
ŠAMARIANS LEAVING
TO-DAY.
The tourists on the Cunard liner ass.s." Samaria" spent to-day shop.
› SEAMEN'S WAGES DISPUTE.
NO NEWS FROM CANTON.
their wonderful consistency, the members of the eleven have almost monopolised the lists of averages. Their smallest score was 103 and· ̈ the highest 176 for 9. Only four three-figure innings, were recorded against them. The smallest was 39 by Kowison 2nd. XI. Excluding six players who did not participate The withdrawal of the Infantry in more than two matches, only pany is more or less independent Ping and buying curios as a re-
No reply has been received by justinents in the averages &c. A this evidence of keenness going a however, have not responded to has necessitated wholesale re-te
the Seamen's Union from their in the Far East. During the delegates to Canton or the Secre- number of players who have been long way towards ensuring success. the instructions regarding calling ship's stay here. Messrs Thos.
tary for Chinese Affairs. included in the select lists have. D. and D. Rumjahn were the for pay." Enquirios to-day clisited/ Cook and Son have left no dropped out owing to the scores pick of a steady batting. side that they have held several meet every opportunity of seeing the that there would be no develop stane unturned to give the visitor: The Union officials intimated having been rendered "nul! and the former playing one halfings to devise means to bring about Colony and the country adjacent.ments as far as they were con 'void." The following records. century innings and the 'comprising only league games, latter two, Their formidable
The ship leaves at 5 p.m. to-day should be interesting:-
bowling strength can be gauged by
for Shanghai, whence parties will cemed till they have "received Double feat of scoring 200 runs tire fact that the two change bowlers only sent up 68.4 overs
spots in China proper. visit Peking and other interesting advice from their Canton delegates. and took 17 wickets between them,
This is expected to arrive to-night. the opening pair, F. M. Arculli and H. D. Runjab being able to get wickets every time.
and taking 20 wickets (or more): First League, A. A. Ruajahn, 314 Funs and 20 wickets; Second League, H. D. Rumjaha, 245 runs and 30 wickets.
1 settlement.
..
Every endeavour was made to explain to the men that this in- novation would not reduce the
Hongkong Electric Co. says
A statement issued by the North Point Workshop were told "The men employed in the on Tuesday morning that they cards on the way out to tiffin, and were required to punch their time
Scored 200 runs (or more)-First
complied the although some League, OweaHuges 442; Fincher
Civil Service juniors were dis-majority at the instigation of a few 248; Sayer 215: S. H. Ismail 206; appointing till the end of the sea refused to punch their the cards. Capt. Davies 203. Second League, son when they beat the Police and D. Rumjahni 223; H. Y. Lam 221. the 'Varsity 2nd. XI. They drew
Taken 20 wickets (or more) with the Police earlier in the sea-length of their tiffin hour. First League, Balhetchet 25; A. elron and played a tie with Kowloon Arculli 23. Second League, F. M.juniors. Their two biggest innings Arculli 37; Townsend 35; Peterson were 191 and 175 for 8 and the 34; C. Earnshaw 27; R. Taylor 22. bowlers had their field day when the Police were dismissed for 54. Three first and two second Weakness in batting contributed division teams have completed to the non-success; none of the their fixtures. These are the 1.R.C., batsmen's names have appeared in Civil Service, Navy, I.R.C. 2nd the averages. XI and Civil Service 2nd XI. The following are comparative statistics.
No. of Kann Rani
Mitel Scored Against
1,296. 1,147
Civil Service 8
IR.C.
Navy
8
1,052
I.R.C. 2nd XI 10
1,386
Civil Service
2nd XI
L
will be
Interest to-morrow entred on the Club v. University ame on the Club ground. The former will be without the services 883 of their veteran, Tom Pearce.
1,243 1,156 Appended are the league batting 929 (20 and over) and bowling (less than 12 per wicket) averages of: 10 1,035 1,21 players who have participated in at icast half their team's engage- ments:-
Taking the average per wickel the figures in the same order are; 19.63-11.37, 18.21-17.26, 14.41- 17.25, 17.32-9.78, 10.56-14.25.
Owen
LEAGUE BATTING
AVERAGES.
FIRST LEAGUE.
No. of
Innings:
Hughes
Aggregate.
Highest
Score.
Average.
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The workinen however refused to listen to any explanation or would neither check out to tiffin nor argument and as they return to work they left the Com pay's workshop at I p.m. and have not since returned.
Uler an agreement with the. work they are entitled to an hour for tiffin. The Company. is entitled to take any ordinary and well recognized method of check- ing men in and out of their work- shops, and as some 220 workmen have left their employment with- out notice or just cause the Com- any considers these men to be no longer in their employ."
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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
WWE the undersigned JOHN D.
HUMPHREYS & SON, of Alexandra Building, Des Voeux Road; Central, hereby give notice that we have THIS DAY authorised Mr. Juun DAVID HUMPHREYS to sign our firm name per procuration.
Dated this 4th day of April, 1823. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
TO LET.
Civil Service beat Kowloon, C.R.C., Navy and Craigengówer, drew with LR.C. and lost to the University, H.K.C.C. and R.G.A. Their best performances were in beating Kowloon by 138 runs and Craigengower by 236 runs. On the latter occasion, they scored 319 runs, establishing a new record for
(H.).... or Saturday afternoon cricket.
7 442 128*110.50 their three defeats, it should be A A. Rumjahn mentioned that they only lost by Fincher (C. S)... 8 248 89 41.33
*(U)..
314 70 44.86 very small margins,-12 runs, 20 mins and 28 runs, respectively. J. Davies (H.) 4 82 72* 41.00 With the exception of the innings Capt.Davies(RA)5 203 75 40.60. of 88 against the R.G.A., they have Com. Wood (N.). 6 193 68* 38.60 always manged three figures. On Webster (H.)...... 5 181 78 36.20 the other hand, the highest scores Quick (U) 7 196 81* 32.66 TO LET-One European flat in "Lee Building" Wanchai Gap recorded against them were 159 by Sayer (C. S.)...... 7 215 49 30.71 the Club and 137 by the Indians, Mid. Evans (N.). 6 183 61 30.50 Road. Apply to No 32 Kennedy Kowloon's 52 was the smallest S. H. Ismail (LR.)'8 206 63 29.43 Road.
A. H. Madar (LR) 8 113 42* 28.25 6 138 35 27.60 Fincher, Sayer and Wood have Oliver (R. A.)... 6 158 46 26.33
Pearce (H.) been the principal run-getters. Capt. Spinks (K) 7 152 40 25.33. Although with an inferior average. Sayer has been the most con-S. D. Ismail (L.R.) 8 173 51* 24.71 sistent. Half-century innings have A. E. Wood(C.S.) 8 172 77 24.57 been scored by Fincher (3), 89, Sutherland (C.S.) 5-120 60 2400 65*, 50*; Wood (2), 77, 539. Ismail (I.R.)... 4.95 33 23-75 Sutherland and Witchell (1. each) Benson (K.)..... 7 138 50 23.00 60 and 58 respectively. Ling took Chester (RA).... 7 134 31* 22.33
A. H. Rumjahn the highest number of wickets, 19.
(LR) 7 149 38 21.29 Reed only bowled in 3 matches and came out with an average of Omar (Craig) $ 103 48 20.60 -14 for 7.79. Sayer and Baker were G. A. V. Hall (K) 6 103 40* 20.60 the best of the change bowlers Purcell (N.) 8 162 49 20.25 and Lambic was in great form in the two matches he took part in.
total recorded against them.
The Indians defeated the C.R.C., Craigengowerad Navy, drew with Civil Service, R.G.A., Kowloon and the University and lost to the HK C.C. Their highest innings were 185 for 7 against the Navy and 171 for 6 against the C.R.C. The lowest was 94 versus the H.K.CC. They dismissed the C.R.C. for 83 but several big scores were record- ed against them, viz:-309 for 9 by the Club, 191 for 5 by the 'Varsity and 189 by Kowloon. S.D. Ismail, S. H. Ismail and A.H. Rumjahn were the chief scorers, the two Ismails each passing the half cen
None of tury on one occasion. the bowlers are in the averages. The opening pair, A. el Arculli and J. S. Curreem were below form- although there were times when they were really hilliant-and more work was thrown on Madar and S.-H.-Ismail, who deteriorated. towards the end of the season...
SECOND LEAGUE,
H. Y. Lani (U.)... 7 221 89 36.83 | H. D. Rumjaha
(I. R.)
8 245 70* 35.00 D. Rumjahn (LR) 8 223 59* 31.86 J. Ackbar (1. R) 6 60 1* 30.00 Hammond (RE) 7 171 100* 28.50 Alexander (P.)... 8 189 68 27.00 Petheram (K.)... 7 162 57* 27.00 Wahpp (LR.) 5 80 36 26.66 Redpath (R.E.)... 7 164 55 23.43 Pearson (RE)... 7 132 40 22.00 E. J, Edwards (K) 9 173 35 21.62 Peterson (U) 8 169 94 2112 Vicajee (U.). 4 4 18 20.50
*-denotes "not out."
LEAGUE BOWLING?
AVERAGES.
FIRST LEAGUE,
of
Average, Balhetchet (J.)......... 25. 7.40 Quick (U)
129.35
T.E, Yeoh (U.).. Wallace (N.) Baker (C.S.) McNicoli (H.).
5. 9.80
18. 11.00
ΙΟ 11.00
8 11.00
The Navy laboured under the A. A. Rumjahn (U.)... 20 9-45 disadvantage of not having a real team, the exigencies of cruises and re-commissioning necessitat ing thirty-one players being put In the field during the League Capt. Davies (RA)... 19- season sixteen of whom bowled. Ling (C.S.).
19 11.68
Their highest innings was 177 for B. D. Evans (K) ...... 19 11,89
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1 Hongkong Electrio Employées 23 14 Chiness Seamen Strike
Leading Articles
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Land Sales
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Speeding Up Mails
4
Taikoo Strike Bottled
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Local and General
5-7 Carpenters' Dispute
.23
Hongkong Realty Co.
7
Sui-na" Report
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Chinese' Cocks
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Dinner Jacket Claim
.24
Bible Society
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Vegetable Baskets
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A Spiritualistic Meeting
9
Hongkong Vrlunteers
| Inspector Garrod's Departure 24
9
Orient to Europe
.24
Tramp of Men...
9
Ch'ing Ming
25
Chamber of Commerce
...10-12
Children's Corner................
Chinese Octogenarian..
25
.13
Concubine and Cook.
.25
Hongkong Trade....
..19
Shorthand and Typewriting ..13
Greater Shanghai.
.25
Skipper's Mittala
Motor Cycle Accident
.25
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Godown Destroyed
.26
Troops and the Peak Tramway 14
Indo China Fleet
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Street Shots
.14
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42 Years' Service
.26.
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Stabbing Caso
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Barbour Blaze
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Official Appointments
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Cigarette Thick
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Runaway Director
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Canton Women's Effort
..17
Sport...
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Police Officers in Dock
..17
Special Cables
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Astor House Tragedy
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Shipping
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Far East & Australasia
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..22
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6 against Kowloon but they could only :-manage 46 against the H. D. Rumjahm' (LR.) 30
SECOND LEAGUE
Varsity in their first match of the F. M. Arculli (LR) 37 season. The Club scored 224 for C. Earnshaw (F.) ...... 27 8.78 5 against them and they dismissed T. O. Yeaw (U.). ...... 14 the Chinese eleven for 70 Com Peterson (U) Wood, Mid Evans and the Rev. Wenser (K)........ 12. Purcell turned out to be the most R. Taylor (CS) successful of the batsmen. Of the Cowan (C.S.). bowlers, Lt. Wallace had the best Townsend (RE). results. Evans and Wood each ex- Jacobson (RE)... ceeded the half-century on two Gardiner (C.S.). occasions, pavy
Pearson (RE).....
8.40
8.46
8.79
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35 10.46 M
10.67 13411.38
11.82 W.P.C
The Indlar junior eleven did not fose a league match during the. season and were only beaten ce
med. They beat Civil Serv and Kowloon twice on-b blico and the University Fid
tehestë be, upine
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